Rudyard Kipling: “Kim” is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the British Empire, around the time of the Second Afghan War. It tells the story of the street-wise orphan Kimball O’Hara, a highly moral Irish-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed in the “Great Game” (a

Joseph Conrad: “Almayer’s Folly” (1895) is Joseph Conrad’s debut novel. It centers on the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, who comes to Borneo with a suitcaseful of dreams. He settles on the exotic island among the Malays and mainly deals in river trade. His half-Mal

Charles Norris Williamson,Alice Muriel Williamson: “For some moments distant Vesuvius had beguiled my thoughts from the still more distant mountain of the secret, when suddenly a white girl in a white hood and a long white cloak passed me on the white deck: whereupon I forgot mountains of reality and drea